DEATH OF BABY PROBED

State officials are investigating the death of a 6-month-old Hallandale girl whose heart had stopped for 15 minutes by the time her parents brought her to a doctor's office Thursday, police said.

Roselyn Mapps of 1001 NW Second Ave. was given cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the doctor's office in Miramar and then transported to Memorial Hospital in Hollywood, where she was pronounced dead.

An autopsy is to be performed on the baby by the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office to determine the cause of death, police said.

Lt. Jim Schendel of the Miramar Police Department said investigators for the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services called him several times Thursday, seeking details surrounding the child's death.

Roselyn, whose parents' names were not available, had suffered from repeated high fevers, said Dr. Richard Wolff, her most recent pediatrician.

Though police said they were told Roselyn had viral meningitis, Wolff said he never confirmed that diagnosis since he first saw her about a month ago at Memorial Hospital.

Before Thursday, he last saw Roselyn on May 22, when he told her parents that laboratory tests showed her to be healthy, Wolff said. He he told them to call should Roselyn become sick again and assumed she was well when they didn't, he said.

"The father called me prior to coming in. We told (the parents) to come in immediately. However, the mother didn't show up in our office for 1 1/2 hours," Wolff said. The parents stopped at a family practictioner's office in Hallandale before coming to his office, Wolff said.